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Aisha begins life as a Portugese peasant, but finds her existence there too stifling and goes to Paris where she becomes the nanny for a bourgeoise couple. Encouraged by her employer, Aisha begins courses in the Sorbonne as well as falling into an affair with him.
Her world falls apart when her twin brother, Jose, arrives in Paris, converts to Islam and immolates himself as a protest against the cruelty of the modern world.
Aisha fades away almost to the point of death without her twin, but she is pulled back into life by the sheikh who brought Jose to Islam.
When the shiekh is unjustly deported to Morocco, Aisha journeys through the Atlas Mountains to find him - and in the process she is transofrmed to her very being.
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village, Aisha strikes out for Paris, where she finds employment as a
nanny, begins courses at the Sorbonne and falls into an affair with her
employer. But as she settles into her glittering new life, guilt about
abandoning the twin brother she had always protected bites deeply,
prompting her to bring him to join her.
Before long Aisha realises that it is too late - their estrangement has
gone too far. Jose, more vulnerable than ever, falls in with a charismatic
Muslim sheikh, who brings him to Islam and a deadly form of enlightenment.
And so Aisha embarks on her own journey, a quest for self-discovery that
takes her to the crossing point between Muslim and Christian worlds, and
transforms her to her very being.
Lucy Wadham's novel is an engrossing tale of love and redemption which
impels us to examine the truths that unite us all.
